Interesting NYT article on how John Kerry has pressed the fight against the Swiftboaters for Truth. Unsurprisingly, Kerry’s assault has been devastating; the only defense the Swiftboaters can seem to muster is that they didn’t like his anti-war speech in 1971. Why didn’t Kerry fight back harder in 2004? Of course, plenty of disappointed and […]
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Like Scott, Roy, Kevin, Ezra, and countless others, I have no plans to read or take seriously Ramesh Ponnuru’s latest, for any number of reasons so obvious they hardly need to be stated. I’
Greenwald on Haditha: It is certainly true, as many pro-war advocates today have noted, that incidents of this type are inevitable in every war. And it is also true that the mere existence of incident
Fer Chrissakes: One of the favored ways in which the relentless and well-funded anti-choice machine is making its way into government is the “choose life” license plate scam. Part of the funds from selling the plates go to the state, but a portion also goes to support “pregnancy centers that do not offer abortion as […]
Ah, nice to see that Big Media Matt has finally messed the hair of the night and come around to the correct position that salary caps are about putting money in owners’ pockets, not about “
Friday Cat Blogging… Nelson and Starbuck
To amplify Amanda’s post on the exploding of Newsweek‘s “women over 40 never get married for the first time” myth, Jeff Zaslow has an excellent article which further elaborates on the article’s perniciousness–in particular, what he correctly identifies as the original article’s “core message” that “educated, career-focused women risk spending their lives alone.” First, with […]
One addendum to the verdicts in the Enron case: apparently a central issue on appeal will be the burden of proof required by the jury instructions, which was the issue that led to the overturning of t
At CT, Harry is contemplating the possible ways out of the hypocrisy charges that would seem to accompany divorced opponents of gay marriage. Along the way, he considers one possibility: One might, of
Lay and Skilling–guilty. My understanding is that–particularly with respect to Lay–this was would be difficult case to get across to a jury, so a terrific job by the prosecution. (For the larger story, I strongly recommend Eichenwald’s book, which is grimly fascinating.)
Shorter Patrick Healy: Your sex life is highly relevant to discussions about political figures. If you’re a Democrat. And, of course, in his (admittedly selective) obsession Healy follows the pr
Fascinating: apparently feminist women can also be heterosexuals. And I’m afraid that this earth-shattering insight can be found not in tossed-off filler in a bad junior high school newspaper, b